New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-02-13
GOSSIP ABOUT BUSINESS.
WHAT CITIZENS AND VISITORS SAY ABOUT
CHANCES AND CHANGES.

surety companies have been established In Phiiadei-
phia Chicago and other large cities as branches OF the
Surety Company, which established mere TWO or
three years ago by exAssstant Postmas'er"ehera' 1"
A. Elmer Henry u. Lyman. who was also assistant s
Postmaster General and VINO Is connecseu Nun o
| nony a,eraaed last year two defaulters week and
ppaid losses aggregatng to the sum OF 5000 The
| atlantic Coast Steamship Company mace wholesale
insurance of all their financial agents as an experiment
and themselves paid the premiums to the amount OF
81 600, which was more than wiped out within TWO
weeks by the embezzement of one OF their agents at
| Charleston amounting to $500 The Surety Com
panv has lust got through with suit in " peg
bankers fnanciers and especially among booders who
have made Canada their home. law OF the Dominion
makes it penal offence for any person to take into
Canada or have in his possession there any property
stolen embezzled in any other country. railroad
agent of Wichita, Kansas, whose athfulness had been
insured fled to Winnipeg and was arrested there by
the direction of the Surety Company. They spent
several hundred dollars in securing evidence tor his
vctio undor this law and procured every possible
point against him except that. they were unable to
identity by the numbers Of the bills the money that he
had taken with him. The was tried but they were
de Gated In their attempt 10 convict him MIR. LYMAN
said that the result will not deter them IRON making
further efforts to convict who flee to Canada He
| thinks that the verdict was somewhat influenced by
! public sentiment The Winnipeg people are poor and
| welcome ANYBODY who comes there with money. even
II il is obtained rascally manner. Ii IL one OF the
important features OF this class OF insurance that the
companies doing such business propose TO push offend
crs Conviction whereas persons suffering the loss IN
divldualy would be inclined to compromise by the re-
turning OF u part or the whole Il the stolen goods or
moneys and leaving the thief free IRON prosecution.
| James F. JOY, president Of the Michigan Central
Railroad Company, whose stout figure, full beard and
clean shaven upper lip well known IN New-York,
when asked Yesterday about tho Interstate Commerce
hill rcplied II il time enough to discuss II when we
find ont what II means. There seems to be wide
difference OF opinion ms to it's scope ard force ana as 10
the powers If the commissioners The railroads can
not ery we'll obey II until there il some agreement
among sponsors to what II means. They seem to
be IA much at over 1t as we are'
The Interstate Commerce bill is endless subject of
discussion among railroad officials. f. B. Thomas of
Washington, who has been connected with Western
railroads for halt lifetime and is now general man
ager OF the Richmad and DanyIe road, SAID to me
yesterday about the preyaing question: The Inter
state Cornu cree bill Ia ruin to the railroads Anything
that disurbs the general settled laws OF trade and
commerce runOus alike to railroads and the county
do not any way in which the railroads can help
Themselves in the matter unless the bill Is declared un-
constitutional There will be trouble. apprehend,
when they come to inquire into the meaning OF various
clauses When Reagan and CuOm are unable to
agree to the interpretations Of the Law, II looks
little unreasonable to expect railroad men TO saisiac-
tory obey it,
Chatting about the excitement in northwestern Ohio
over the natural gas discoveries Ex-Governor Charles
Foster of OHIO said yesterday: You may imagine
that there is excitement when toll you that John
Sherman rho is considered the coolest of investors,
has purchased ou yng farms near Findley at ns high
"a 5000 and $500 am afraid that the SEN
ator will never do anything more with his property
than farm it
The problems OF the iron trade are occupying mu,h
attention Mt the present time because the prosperity OF
iron manufacture has been considered gauge of
the general prosperity of the country met j. A.
Long other day. who is at the bead OF one OF the
large iron enterprises in the Hooking valley OF ono
For many purposes OF iron manufacture the Hooking
Valley ore requires ANAL eamatlon with the bes,ener
ores brought down from Lake Superior. speaking ON
the subject of the trade Mr. Long said There l.
90 boom in iron the present time but only steady
and strong business increase. OF the 2oOOOuO tons
of Bessemer that coming down tins year IRON
the Northwest am reliably informed that fully 30
per II already sold II looks very mnoh ~ though
the supply would not be equal to the demand and
that we shall be obliged 10 bong over considerable
quantities from England In spite OF that TACT Know
Of some iron having been -old here for shipment TO
England The sales here were OF such iron as used
for mall-abo castings; If tho iron business Is held
steady and h:m we shall have long period OF pros
pcrity in it, production The danger il OF getting up
boom which would bring iron over from England"
In n chance meeting that had recently at the
Sturteyant House with Homer Laushn who has been
engaged Tor years in tho manufacture OF artistic pot
tcrv at Eat Liverpool Ohio. he told me that quite
recently the serious difficulties the of American
pot"rs in the mannactue 81 art ware have been over
come and hereafter il will only be question OF
added artistic To the wares already produced !
Mr. Aughlin il of the promoters OF the school
Ceramic art and has been enabled recently TO pro-
duce porce'an ware composed OF coiored pastes and
blue paste lined with pure white paste not heretofore
successfully attempted in nr pottery 10 this country.
On the outside of the blue paste he has succeeded in
building figures in white paste relief ln tie art pot
ierics Trenton Fast Liverpool the production
hns thus tar been limited TO such goods be made
from the pOttcr's somewhat limited high fire
parttebrown, rose sage and similar tinf- beng the
most Some OF the delicate murte or ordinary
sii face decoration coors vanish in Thu high fire"
The old Wedgewood jasper" resembles the
new work very much up to the point Of glazing.
Wcdgcwood used halt glaze or smeer rroba-
tha and aninF ha
liable to into the white in his ware.
Having overcome the difficulty in iinting
vireonr to prevent the colors from running
TO sether Mr.. Laughlin is hopeful that the potters
plastic art will crystalline forms and designs distinct
lively American. He said to me: Z" an believer IN
scli,ma 10 American System While Europe has had
the advantage centuries OF art training and has pro-
duced great thinrs American copies OF the same have
too much the look Of theft to satisfy me. We have
governments. system of our own aud II Is n pretty
good system and believe that American manuiact-
nyers and art potters think serously and indie
pendently ID will be possible 10 evolve good and beau
iifu things of their 1t is at least worth trying
was chatting the other dey with General T. NJ.
Loran who manipulated the Richmond Terminal deal,
when he said to We have now brought together
Ia one great system 400 miles of Southern railroad.
Il has been great movement for the consolidation of
railroad interests ana has required the assistance of
some of the best railroad men in the country by the
way, Henry Fink. brother of the Old pool commits
sloncr, who is one of tho best railroad men in the
world has just been retained In connection OF our
properties.
A well known character Of central New York is Will
lam II. Sweet, of Syracuse of whom u friend said
recently There only Bill Sweet in the world
Mr. Sweet at tho head of an iron mandatory which
hears his name. lilo was in New-York day two
ago lie wears a fur-trmmed coat, corded after the
French fashion. His large, heavy face is frnged with
curly grayshbrown hair atd adorned with heavy
nustache and imperial On of his fingers he wears
ring the ton Of which of ivory, in which enOr-
nous precious stone is set and by its side nestles
diamond of smaller size Mr.. Sweet has great taste
for artistic pottery, and recently spent here in single
dav SI 100 such His hobby at the present
time ia the water supply Of His city In talking with
me on tnat subject he sad We have an abundant
sunnly of water but il il hard water, imprcgnated
viii magncsia and lime and is therefore exceedingly
80 - In hnilers In MIich il is used. Some one